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Poem Revision Checklist
Ideas
Revising/Editing
6. After rereading your group’s draft, discuss these strategies for revision: Adding: How can we communicate our tone and theme more effectively by
adding descriptive language, figurative language, and sound techniques?
Consider adding language that uses juxtaposition or parallel structure.
Rearranging: What revisions should be made to rearrange the structure of our rhyme scheme and meter? Where can we use enjambment for effect or emphasis?
Deleting: Are there any words or lines that do not contribute to our meaning or tone?
Editing: Are there mistakes in conventions that should be corrected?
ACTIVITY 4
Independent Writing
WRITING PROMPT: Write a sonnet (or another lyric poem with a specific structured rhyme scheme) on a topic of your choice. Be sure to include:
• Imagery: descriptive and figurative language (for example: metaphor, simile,
sensory detail, imagery)
• Sound techniques (for example: rhyme, alliteration, parallel structure,
enjambment)
• Poetic elements (for example: quatrains, couplets, rhyme scheme, meter)
Refer to the Scoring Guide for this writing task to help you understand where to focus your attention and efforts.
• Does the poem have a title?
• Is the subject clear and appropriate?
• Does the poem establish a speaker?
• Does the poem convey tone?
• Does the tone shift?
• Does the poem convey a theme (a central message, insight,
or observation about life)?
• Does the poem use quatrains and couplets?
• Does the rhyme scheme, meter, and overall structure appear
intentional for effect?
• What examples of descriptive language (such as connotative diction and specific adjectives) can you find in the poem?
• What examples of figurative language (such as metaphor
and juxtaposition) can you find?
• What examples of sound techniques (such as rhyme and
parallel structure) can you find?
• Is the capitalization and punctuation consistent and
purposeful?
Structure
Use of Language
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